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Book Review: Bliss on Toast by Prue Leith

  Toast. Say that word to an American and you’ll summon up a rather limited set of ideas. Toast with butter and strawberry jam, or grape jelly if you are in a diner with a Western omelet. Something more exotic? Well, there is always cinnamon toast, toast buttered...

Hands On Cooking Classes for Team Building in New York City

Cooking by the Book is back and sizzling. We offer Food and Fun with our unique program of hands on cooking classes. For over 30 years, we offered classes in our Tribeca loft and tens of thousands of you enjoyed that experience. Now, in a new time, our classes have...

Cookbook Review: The Brownie Diaries

    Brownies. It’s a powerful word sure to bring up the fondest memories of childhood. Or, in my case, adulthood. I adore brownies. In my lifetime, I have eaten more brownies than Oreos. Can you say that? Ah, well, now you just might be able to. A little new...

Cookbook Review: The Pocket Guide to Whisky

Sometimes good things come in small packages. And more rarely, a great thing arrives in a small package. The Pocket Guide to Whisky is small, at only 144 pages. And it is that rare great book that you will treasure. The subtitle...

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Cookbook Review: The Brownie Diaries

    Brownies. It’s a powerful word sure to bring up the fondest memories of childhood. Or, in my case, adulthood. I adore brownies. In my lifetime, I have eaten more brownies than Oreos....

TBT Cookbook Review: Tart It Up!

In these days of being locked down at home, cooking chores can weigh on us all. One key trick is to make dishes that give you leftovers you really want to eat. Like a tart with a wonderful crust and...

Raspberry Tart with a Pistachio Crust

    This delightful tart was our Easter dessert. It features a pistachio crust that you will find wondrous — something you will want to use over and over again. Inside goes a rich vanilla...

TBT Recipe: Chicken and Asparagus Pie

It is early spring. Time for the first asparagus of the season. What can we do with chicken so that it doesn’t taste just like chicken? Well, the special and distinctive flavor of asparagus is...

Vermont Late Winter Cottage Pie

  These are days when we can all use some comfort food. And, with us cooking all our meals, it’s great to construct a dish that will give you leftovers to smile about. The bubbling topping here...

Sticky Buns from Marion Cunningham

Sticky bun? Cinnamon roll? I think the distinction is whether you cover the top with that white sugar glaze you see in bakeries. I like the glaze, but, but is superfluous. And I find it actually...

Cheese Strata

Here’s an idea from March 2015, and it shows why if you want breakfast, you’d be better off in Italy than anywhere else. This dish is deep and decadent. You might consider challah or...

TBT Cookbook Review

In 2015 I first posted this review of Jacque Burdicks’s lovely French Cooking en Famille.  Published in 1989, it brought rave reviews, like this one from M.F.K. Fisher: “French Cooking...

Cookbook Review: Searing Inspiration

Utterly delicious. Searing Inspiration was published in 2018 and I got an early copy. And then stuff happened and I lost track of the book. I uncovered it this weekend and truly regret the delay in...

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